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<h2>Pendulum Simulator</h2>
<a href="howtouse.html">How To Use this Application</a>

<h3>Motion of a simple pendulum</h3>
<p>A simple pendulum can be modeled as a point mass suspended on a in-elastic string. This program offers a simulation of such a pendulum
both ideally (with no damping) and with a damping factor applied.</p>

<p>The values for inclination and angular velocity at any given time is obtained by solving a 2nd order differential equation</p>
<img src="differentialeqn.png"/> <small>Source: Computing Laboratory Spring LAB.E1E, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London.</small>
<p>Where <img src="pi.png"/> is the inclination from the vertical, <img src="omega.png"/> is the angular velocity of the pendulum bob, <b>g</b> is the acceleration due to gravity, and <b>r</b> is the length of the string.</p>
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<p>Find more information about the motion of a simple pendulum by visiting <a href="http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/HBASE/pend.html" target="_blank">Hyper Physics</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendulum" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>
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